xxxix, 376 pages : 21 cm

The Montessori Method. Introduction of Montessori to America. Ideas and practices on education of children

Translation of: Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica

Reprint. English translation originally published: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1912

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxix)

A critical consideration of the new pedagogy in its relation to modern science -- History of methods -- Inaugural address delivered on the occasion of the opening of one of the "children's houses" -- Pedagogical methods used in the "children's houses" -- Discipline -- How the lesson should be given -- Exercises of practical life -- Refection-the child's diet -- Muscular education-gymnastics -- Nature in education-agricultural labour: culture of plants and animals -- Manual labour-the potter's art, and building -- Education of the senses -- Education of the senses and illustrations of the didactic material: general sensibility: the tactile, thermic, baric and stereognostic senses -- General notes on the education of the senses -- Intellectual education -- Method for the teaching of reading and writing -- Description of the method and didactic material used -- Language in childhood -- Teaching of numeration: introduction to arithmetic -- Sequence of exercises -- General review of discipline -- Conclusions and impressions

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